1955-03-12 — Page 7

HOW A

H

OW is a spy trained?

That question his been naked many times since

exploits of wartime agents became known. I'll tell you

Marie WILX 23, singl pretty--and French. The start of the war found her in Engeland a milliner.

an Then, in 1941 the BBC broadcast an uppeal for ull foreign nationals to contact an address in Baker Street, London. It was the address. of the work's first school for spies.

A severe looking board! of Intelligence officers grilled her. Her whole life story was broken den und discusspit. Then came

the vital quest Bari,

you become t spy "

Marke's mal stur.es! have

Win

The rest that ended when she

ember jumped triana HaN

four months later-a fully qualified agen! She

Wils

physically and mentally bough ened, and hurl learned the barot outlines of military roadNe

Then she learnt the shelt craft of probinge.

For three months she went lo the school for spies

fasted for tere lo twelve houts

a day. hustend of artthemetk, she learned to shout. Sabotaging railways Took the place of cookery un the clitzat Tunt - Ioble. How to kill

Germazi with one knife stab

more inporlari

goats al hockey.

tra

J

be

MONITOR

She learned 10 A 21 tele- graphist, with knowledge of this Isterse types of wireless Bets. She

to masteru meteorology abte tu send weather reports.

INSULTED

bes

She was taught how to break man's arm with one blow, uti how to go without food for days ON 473.

Tough Nglish

interrogatospu beral 1 her, insult i 23 d

her alt to see how she wonkit Gestapo reuet. The

sexed such

merbord, Ir wa: prepartsk.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, · 1955: · ·.

SPY IS TRAINED

By LESLIE MONTGOMERY.

(AS TOLD TO GORDON THOMAS)

A policeman tapped her and asked for her identity card. But it had been taken away from her at the Spy School.... Annotto was in a jam!

She didn't take any notice. "Moste--you can forget You me Annette for a moment!" Sull she took no notice,

carefully. Within

hours, she would be linked up with the Underground in Dijon. Her job was to relay their information back to London.

Quickly, she explained to the they altacker the bomb, their girl her reason for being in tools einnking on its casing. Any Franco, without mentioning any second the fuse might spark off. other contacts. Then followed

Then came another danger. Once the bomb had been hall

hệ usual warning:

"If anything happens to me emptied, someone small and stim treide to or my relatives, we shall know would have to climb who talked. We always get scoop the remainder of the ex-

plosive out.

those who talk...."

This threat was effective for those tempted to curry favour with the Germans.

But Annette was shaken. Shr would no longer be ablo 10 transmit from the shelter of the Underground dens. The Gestapo might put a "lat"*' on her and so hope that she would

Thero

silenco.

His

was a tense Then their leader decided. son, Marcel, would do it.

Tears formed Nobody spoke. in the eyes of thoco hard-faced men. They all knew that Mar- cel was the only being their leader lived for,

lead to the local Resistance DARING

Icoders.

So

she started Transmitting Quickly, the boy was brought from ореть country, using to the bomb. He said nothing batteries, for he radio. In he when heard of the delayed se- shelter of woods, on moors, in tion fuse that could suddenly ditches. Annette would crouch and all their lives.

the

and send Information the His father hoisted him into Underground bad gathered.

bomb. Then, nothing broke the «llenco except Marcel's steady chipping at the

She became used to travelling In fram coats, lorries and even hearses. She became used to

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As the days passed, a hearse ing men.

the next thirtyEnjoyable Cɔokery became the only civilian tran- minutes Marcel laboured in the Baby Book sport allowed on the read at

interior of the bomb. This is Hong Kong erampext night by the Germans, Annelle ears cocked for the splutter apont stifling hour's

the that in

would foll him the fuse The Hongkong Countryside (Herklots) morbid coolnes ef coffins. had ignited.

Hongkong Birde (Herklots) And always within en y

Coronation Clory reach was a signet ring, holding a cyanide pill.

RECALL

ogain brushing pieces of high ex-King George Vi plosive

from his clothes and grinning sheepishly.

$18.00

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25.00

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At last the Job was don Marcel came cul into the open

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Everyone relaxed. Some turn-"

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Annette smiled faintly. Inside but was a glowing pride that she was now ready for action, A few days later a car drove sinlled the instruc- her to Guynes Hull, a country for "You are learning fust." house near Tempsford. Every-

For

time, things

went one there was sworn to secrecy, The praise washed over her

Her faked pussport order

Then one night came a recall Marcel's father

had The tears trickled unashamedly No Hiding Place (Behind Scotland Yard) without

The

smoothly. contained 1201 Gestapo The house sfleet.

Cx-

from

IL London. and her pose as a pro-German been decided that it It to wenken ToRed

tremely mixed # suspect

bag of agents

muliner European coun-

helped her to move longer There must be nu chinks in her from various

over France and link up with trlew now.

other Resistance groups.

Then, one bright day she left the school-to spend a few days London She wandered the burub-damaged through streets, broathing in the freedom that she would shortly exchange for oppression.

Suddenly, policeman tapped her on the arms, and took her She was to a police station, asked for her identity card, Bul instructors at the spy school had taken it from her.

Th

p: remun koked grim Who Wits she? Where had she come from? Why W115 sh London?

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weit 43 De

She couldn't

one of answer She

strictly The questions

Wity Forbidden to speak of the school, Annette was b *****

1

Then one morning. M... b- came "Aunella--

Birt

the

whu bilteily hated the English That was the new

Pole this her testEARNTORS

chosen for her.

"From now onwards

They talked together, ute together, exercised together, but no one knew who any individual was or where

was going. One could only guess from the accent with which they spoke English.

be

=TWO EGGS

No one asked questions, nor clic anyon ever talk about himself.

Then, one night Annelle sal ch.wn to # meal of-two fried eges on a warm plote. That was the secret signal that her turn had come. She started at he eggs, and ate him slowly.

oped she'd taste.

Then came frouble. -Travel- Paris-bound train that ling on

shic was usually half, cimpty,

The Magic Scroll

no down his face. ฟร safe for her to slay in France. A Lysander would pick yard vanished her up at dropping point smoking cloud of twisted metal | Weights & Measurementa

und concrete. "Marcel," just outside Dijon.

A few days later, a railway Common Marine Food-Fishes of Hongkong

skywards in a

isecond enlarged edition)

Detailed plans for het die parture were drawn up. Ten was started to find hundreds of heavily armed patriots guarded German soldiers climb Aboard ut # wayside station.

the landing Held in such a way that nobody could come within With the other

being elvilians, 50 yards of it without Annelle was herded out to the spotted. corridor so that the soldiers could sit in the compartments.

She

reading her paper. Then, suddenly, she had a feeling that somcone was staring at her, Carefully lower- ing the paper, she saw that a was scrutinising young woman her.

resumed

Eventually, she ended up. They might be the last English who knew that Arinelte

fore counterintelligence affeers, Chver and

oguin. over had burkid and fret questions al

Jer.

they

A pause. Then: "We think a German spy!"

Annette 1 was born on April you are

3, 1918. Ia milliner it says

bo on my pursport--ati | Wax born in Dljon. My parents Bre dead. My brother. Marcel, was kiled by the retreating Eng- lish. I approve of

the

Vieng Governnient. The hals 1 make are much admired in Germany,"

Over and over again, memorised the story of the new name and life she had assunted, She learned how to parachute without hurting herself, how to dismantic radio sets, how hide a Sten gun on her body.

And every spare moment was spent in memorising her background.

"Marle have, a letter for you."

now

SOLITARY

more

Amnelle almost laughed amusement, They must be tools then she remembered that she had nothing to prove that she wasn't, She spent long hours in Bolltury

More confinernent questions, more threats, solitary confinement. She won dered where it would all end, Suddenly, it did.

"You have now passed your Just test DS a British spy," one of the omeers said. "It was all a trap to see how you would react under a Gestapo examina- tion."

anci

Down to the airfield, through the routine that ended (with a red light sending her parachuting down over France,

She felt herself

plunging, losing her breath, getting dizzy. Her chule opened and Its jerk restored her senses. With them, Nazis come the thought that were below, waiting for her.

Annette had heard what the Gestapo did to women to make them talk.

It was an old school friend, hal been in England at the outbreak of wor!

WARNING

The newcomer slowly turned pale at the sight of Annette.

ins bright moonlight, the Lysander touched down, and la was aboard. Annette seconds Her hazardous role was She had more than justified the confidence placed in her by her severe instructors.

over.

of

The amazing bravery of the Continental Resistance encourag- ed us time and time again. But of all

Their

thousands escapades, the story of the bay who took the biggest single gamble with death is lways fresh in my mind.

Marcel was 14, the only son

3

he his

of a Belgien Resistance leader. Lake many other children, looked forward to joining Her thoughts were plain, What father in sabotaging the German

war effort. was Annetle doing here? Slow-

As with others, this Belgian ly, the agent moved down the Underground group were short corridor.

of explosives. "Where are you going? That's

Then camo a heavy bomber an olit The night was clear, though not the way to treat

Next their den the ground was disturbingly school friend." The girl's words rald near

morning, they found a 4,000- dark. It appeared to be coming froze Annette in her tracica.

unexploded boonb up more rapidly at her than "I didn't recognise you." The pound

among Somc ruined when she had made trial jumps agent forced herself to be calm, in a remote part of Scotland. "'n como out with you at the houses

The patriots decided But she landed safely.

next stop." For long minutes, she Jay Desperately, Annette strug- remove its explosive and use it nearby railway where she had dropped, ob gled to make conversation, and to destroy

50 avoid attracting attention. At yard. livious of everything. She was

They know that at any mo back on French soil again.

the next stop, sho shoved the

the ment the bomb might blast them Then calmly she started the still goggling girl out of

out of existence. In darkness, routine she had been taught so train:

nestling

*

SEFTON DELMER sums up the situation in the Land of the Rising Sun

THE SECRET THREAT FROM JAPAN

TACTI

the Americans hope, the

the Japanese ground forces, under American nuploss and Japanese Parliament, there abordinates.

Why do I put so much accent on hapo?

which

number now

The build-up

about have our

shake them in this.

to

who will do what they N three years* time, so To be able to achieve this Frankly and openly they It is my bot that if rearme«.

Americans

calculate that confessed to me: “It we rearm ment La passed by the

told by their soldier dew are

iL the they will be able to call

But widespread as trained by will have to be a two-thirds mch home the last of their 130,000, must be expanded to Amerlets on American lines, majority in favour of revising opposition to Japan's rearma ground forces now garrison- a strength of between 250,000 as at present, they will not be the MacArthur-imposed Con- ment among the Japanese, that

wt 300,000 men,

soldiers of the emperor and of stitution banning armies and has not stopped everything being ing Japan.

Japan. They will be soldiers of militarian then it will be as prepared to put it through. They will also need approxi- President Eisenhower and the kind of rearmament policy In six years 'this is also

Young men are being recruited mately tho same armament United

Our men will which secretly will be put into Sintes.

the thousands for just a hope they expect to and mechanised equipment

to their Americans As have to fight the

practice by the Japanese, be able to recall their air on American force

prestat Japan defence force, the same wars for them."

That will be an unpleasanTM force from Japan. The navy, size would have Tanks will be

dates. Much as I tried I could not and dangerous affair. Once the and there is no lack of candi- By polite fiction it is they, hope, will be leaving lighter as Japan le not a good

Japanese militarists are called polleo reserve just like tank ıcountry, Japan sometime between

embarked on the devious path the East German army in the of reaming, all kinds of safe Soviet zone of Germany. + the two.

aircraft mantifac.. guards have been provided to American

are civilian and political turfs have made contracts with control of the -now." -armed Japanese firms for the cou

struction of military aircraft under licenco in Japan.

Yes, it is all set for full specu Taboad;""; "this car rearmament and the Soviet Union in these August last year and has only the training of our trooper is with those Japanese who be we shall so. If we to, my one coming years but on the co- a few trainer planes at present properly. Sonded with Japaness love that this remilitariaatiop of: Drayer is: Let us not be under operation of the Japanese them. The majority of Japanese I traditional finse thodes pongan Japan in following too cloself ees on ether about the selves. Very much #o.

have discussed the matter with well then get a national the heels of the old military temper, of the "apanese or the

Langer of the gure VANDA Mible the Japanese ment or againak ako doTMEDA ACCETT

mako

are efter dead agdat reasina defence force at our own and a regime for those safeguards to a che of the that unions

rearming under

armament Industry, be truly effective will have to rearm. tearm, American

Americanes will have "Yes, it would not be the first hope wireball back up is that Fgoing to make it Our policy can pecoru: plead

that

Because the fulfilment of this American bring the boys

Then there are elick, tricky fellow, "All right" they say, "let's allow the Americans to rearm us. But let's see that MERICANS .calculate that we do so on Japaneso Inne. forces, As they ought to bɑ able to: "Let's ace that

high ochlove this bulid-up in threo, at the restrannyent contracte. which is at the back of years from now.. Hiph. The goes to Japaneso Industry, and Amarict's anxiety to rearm oir force, for all practical pur that our armaments factories

horho dream--it is the same dream

not only on posts, will have to be built frum" got how machine tools and now

The machine

Farmariy--depurist Chino. keratch. It was only begun in “idékiniques. -- Larvasno, tỏg that 2 FUT >I' an "Inclined 'fo- re machine, ́1And 1. supposa "nhead |

the aflitude of

adse

American », with

that they can hold out against a thing or Fapan

adden Milick fong enough for meüllaned

ise Americans to come blok and recert

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